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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Pretty meh as a TV show but I turned my brain off for Star Wars as per usual and enjoyed watching very morose Obi-Wan hang out with precocious young Leia - this is the Leia iteration I've been most attached to. She was very good. Wish we'd gotten both the Anakin flashback and the obvious revelation of Reva's motivations earlier in the series. Probably only worth the watch if you are also an Obi-Wan fan.

Heartstopper

Exactly the slice-of-life teenage m/m show I expected it to be, was charmed by all these silly and/or sad kids and the various animations.

Ms Marvel

The cast for this show is so fucking good that it's unreal, especially Kamala Khan herself. If you liked the comics and/or teenage superhero shenanigans, would recommend! I also found it very easy to follow as a standalone series, I don't watch much Marvel stuff.

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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Decent first game in that Naughty Dog series, going to play through the rest. I quite like Nate and Elena. The mutual disinterest in self-preservation makes them work for me, as does the nerdery. Have minimal thoughts on Sully so far. Was absolutely not prepared for the late-game twist in enemy combatants and played through the last quarter of the game yelling whenever I got scared, which was quite often.

Recs

I received this cute Kiyoko/Yachi (Haikyuu) fic in the fandom5k exchange. Great characterizations, covers both canon and post-canon shenanigans.

This Ace Attorney Trilogy vid to Look What You Made Me Do works so frickin well. Did not expect the puns.

Finished watching The Last Dance, which was a great documentary about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls - I knew basically nothing about MJ other than Space Jam going in, and the documentary was pretty good at setting context.

My Jedi Academy save crapped out on me and instead of loading from an earlier save, I took this as a sign that I should playing this 2003 game. I am now 8.5 hours into Disco Elysium with minimal prior knowledge and an uncharacteristic refusal to look things up. The latter is getting bolstered by an increasingly strong feeling that there isn't going to be a "good" ending anyway, so I can just be the shitter I'm destined to be, dodging political questions and staring at footprints.

The Adventure Zone: Balance

I finally finished it, only took me like three years. My final verdict is Taako ≈ Merle >>> Magnus. This podcast's goof/seriousness ratio and transitions between the two meant that it was very difficult to take any of Magnus's apparently earnest heroics seriously, but I could buy Taako's selfish focus on himself and his people and Merle's half-hearted gestures towards doing good. Also, because I am that dweeb who hates when athletes argue with referees, I additionally hate it when there's incredibly obvious dice lying and the reddit graphs back up that observation.

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Writing

I wrote a couple of fics for Starship Iris week, one for Violet and one for Park. I'm enjoying S2 so far, and posting reactions on Tumblr. I do mourn the loss of timeline consistency, statements about Juniper Liu's age have thrown a wrench into things.

Recs

There has been so much good Starship Iris art lately! A few favourites below.

Stressed undergrad Violet

Sana playing guitar on the hammock

General Frederick getting surprised in the S1 finale

Sana and a tiger

Random Links

Perseverance landed on Mars! I enjoyed this post about how its landing site was chosen, and this video explaining how the helicopter will fly and stay functional.

Midnight Radio

This podcast was a sweet, slow listen of a love story, that was also about loving and hating your hometown and what it means to leave it, or to come back. Sybil the radio announcer has a lovely voice, which is good, because we mostly hear her. Do wish we got to hear Amelia, as much as ambiguity might have been the point.

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Fanwork Recs

(Critical Role) This person's songs for each of the Nein are so, so good. Perfect understanding of the characters displayed in both the lyrics and music. Particular favorites are Fjord's, Beau's and Jester's.

(Starship Iris) All The Numbers Between Zero And One by vachtar - F!Park & McCabe going on a stakeout, a great gift fic I received in the Rule 63 Exchange.

Writing

Wrote a couple of Critical Role fics, including one for the aforementioned R63 Exchange.

a question, not an answer (Beau/F!Caleb) - Caleb is a woman. That makes things go a little different with Beauregard.

Fragile Opening (Beau/Yasha) - After the battle with Vokodo, Yasha asks an unexpected question of Beau.

(I continue to be unimpressed with the wanky parts of CritRole fandom, because I managed to get rude comments on the most default type of genderswap fic. Giant fandoms, sigh.)

Links

The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore

People have written a lot of interesting things, have some links.

Fic Recs

Critical Role

The confession means the pile of Beau/Jester (and Beau/Jester/Yasha :D) fics has only been growing more rapidly in the past week, and I for one am not complaining at all. Have some new and old faves.

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Starship Iris

Am a big fan of the Arkady/Sana and Violet/Arkady/Sana tags growing in size in recent months.
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Random Articles

The Danger of Exaggerating the Political Importance of Social Media - Unfollowing political accounts on my twitter has been an excellent decision.

Who Gave You The Right To Tell That Story? - Way more interesting takes than the trite "Do Not Write People Different Than You As Protagonists, Or Perhaps At All."

A Crucial Blind Spot In Veterinary Medicine - I can't believe placebo effect is a thing even here.